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[Scott Lavelle Friend Scott LavelleJoin date: November 2010Posts: 266Downloads:16Uploads:5 Thanks: 6 Thanked: 64 times in 27 posts]

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I hope this hasn’t already been covered here – I did a search and didn’t come up with anything…

This is a question about the (quite nice) JoomlaCK editor (used to be JoomlaFCK). I have already posted on their support forum and gotten quite decent answers but I wanted to see if I could get someone from Joomlart to work with them to make it more compatible with the T3 framework.

Here’s the thread on their support forum: http://www.joomlackeditor.com/forum/28-joomlack-editor-3x-series/4937-cant-get-typography-to-work#4950

Basically, I would like to be able to properly see my custom theme built on the T3 framework for Joomla 2.5 in the editor. This editor has a number of features that I’d like to be able to use (and pass to my clients) to make editing their site easier. Most notably is the drag and drop image capability, but also the option to select some text and put a DIV around it (as opposed to JCE, which just creates a <div></div> pair, not surrounding the block selection).

But for that to be useful, the editor needs to be able to access my custom stylesheet. Unforunately, that means that pertty much everything has an !important after it so the overrides work. I can point to my stylesheet, but because of the cascade, the styles in their “editor” stylesheet don’t want to apply, so you can’t see their effect in the editor.

They have extended the option to work with Joomlart to make the process better. I think this would help everyone, with T3 being one of the most popular template frameworks and this editor having some features that JCE simply doesn’t have. In the above-mentioned thread, Paul from JoomlaCK Editor support said:

<blockquote>The best things would be to kindly invite Joomlarts on this matter? If you want to raise this with them, we will do our part and would be happy to work together to find a better solution for everyone!</blockquote>

Can someone there reach out to Paul and see if something can be arranged for this?

Thanks for your attention,

Scott Lavelle - Technical Resource Solutions, LLC
Certified Joomla Administrator

[Scott Lavelle Friend Scott LavelleJoin date: November 2010Posts: 266Downloads:16Uploads:5 Thanks: 6 Thanked: 64 times in 27 posts]

#464337

Anyone? I’m looking for an official answer from Joomlart. Is there a better place to post this?

Scott Lavelle - Technical Resource Solutions, LLC
Certified Joomla Administrator

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#464535

Thanks for your contacting us. I have sent your request to design team to check further on this. But i’m quickly check JA Template and it works fine with JoomlaCK Editor, please let me know what JA template you got this error ?

[Scott Lavelle Friend Scott LavelleJoin date: November 2010Posts: 266Downloads:16Uploads:5 Thanks: 6 Thanked: 64 times in 27 posts]

#464870

Hey NinjaLead:

I actually partially worked around this issue with the help of JoomlaCK Paul. Did you check the link I posted? There’s a lot of detail in there that I don’t want to just repeat here. http://www.joomlackeditor.com/forum/28-joomlack-editor-3x-series/4937-cant-get-typography-to-work#4950 – some of the fix was to simply remove their code-mirror plugin from the editor (which is a seperate code mirror plugin from the one that comes with Joomla 2.5…but of course, this makes it hard for me to edit the code directly.

In a nutshell, their editor cannot find the “default template” so I have to point it at some css someplace, so I use the Theme css I’ve created (this is the JA T3 Blank template with a custom theme), but there are some issues with this. Since basically everything in that file is an over-ride, it also over-rides some things I don’t really want it to at the editor screen – like the background of the dropdown lists. In the case of the site I was working on, I had a black background to the body#bd tag (or the html tag, both had same effect). The result is a dropdown list with a black background in it with dark type, which basically makes it impossible to see the items in the drop down. Also, it makes it really difficult to limit the number of “editor styles” since my template override file gets pretty long with stuff that would be irrelevant to the end-user editing their site.

One of the primary purposes of using Joomla for us is to make the updating of the site as easy as possible for the end-user – so they don’t have to even look at the code. So getting the editor to work is paramount to that goal.

Any help here would be appreciated (by the whole community, probably)…

Scott Lavelle - Technical Resource Solutions, LLC
Certified Joomla Administrator

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<em>@slavelle 335293 wrote:</em><blockquote>Hey NinjaLead:

Any help here would be appreciated (by the whole community, probably)…</blockquote>

This thread DEAD without any reply? ?

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Hey Stix,

For what it’s worth, I have two things to add:

1. In creating my Joomla templates, I have been creating a “theme” under the T3_blank template. Somewhere along the line, I got instructions via the Joomlart docs that this was the way to do it – maybe it was a J1.5 thing or whatever, but the new docs I found on the wiki actually explain to create the template as a new COPY of the t3_blank base. I think in this case I’d wind up with less overrides. I haven’t really done any sites with this new method, so I can’t say how it would affect this issue one way or the other or if it would just eliminate the extra layer of folders. Also, since the new T3V3 framework has now come out where everything is different anyway, I will likely build the T3v2 sites I have in the pipeline the same way I always have, since it works and the T3v3 sites I build will have a completely different set of things anyway.

2. I have switched back over to using JCE instead of the JCK Editor for a few reasons – this being one of them. The other is that the primary reason that I was using the JCK editor is that it had a few features I wanted, but only one of them worked the way I wanted it to, which was the ability to drag-drop an image into the Joomla editor from Windows Explorer and have the image uploaded and linked automatically (not a base64 image). JCE added this to their editor in the version that came out around the time of this thread posting, which allows for the drag and drop to work. It saves a TON of time from having to manually upload and such.

One of the features that I would actually LIKE to get to work on the JCE editor (available only on subscription version) is the ability to us templates within the editor to allow me to have more complex layouts within an article (like a spotlight, but not as a module but within the article content) without my end-users having to understand the div structure, etc. But I haven’t been able to get this to work right – this was one of the things I also wanted to work in JCK Editor bit didn’t there either.

Hope this helps – sorry there was no “official” update to this thread! 🙁

Scott Lavelle - Technical Resource Solutions, LLC
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